Haruna Yukawa

Haruna Yukawa (1972-24 January 2015) was a Japanese citizen who traveled to Syria in 2014 to form a private military company there during the Syrian Civil War. He was taken hostage by the Islamic State and was executed on 24 January 2015 when Japan refused to pay his $100,000,000 ransom.

Biography
Haruna Yukawa was born in 1972 in Japan, and he traveled to Syria to form his own private military company (PMC) during the Syrian Civil War. Before August 2014 he was abducted by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and was held for ransom, and Japanese freelance video journalist Kenji Goto headed to Turkey in October 2014 to find Yukawa. He was offered to the Japanese government for a ransom of $100,000,000, which the Japanese government pledged to send to the forces fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria; Goto, who was later captured, was also offered to the Japanese in exchange for $100,000,000, which the Japanese used to train Kurdistan troops against the Islamic State. Yukawa was beheaded on 24 January 2015 when no ransom came, and Goto was videotaped holding a picture of his dead body, and asked for Japan to exchange him for Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, an attempted female suicide bomber.